In a relay station in the Eastside sector, in the Blue empire, a man materializes. He has no recollection about how he got there, and he soon realizes that his body actually hosts seven different personalities. The prevailing personality, a mechanic called Hubert Kelassny, manages to send an SOS and the stranger is soon picked up by a spaceship of the Blues that was cruising in the vicinity.

The Blues drop off Kelassny on an agricultural planet run by human colons, but a few days later, an SVE spaceship lands on the planet, probably informed of the event by one of the colons. As the multiple human is about to be captured by the Larens, he suddenly disappears.